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Friday, February 20, 2015 | Posted by
kara-karina@Nocturnal Book Reviews

This feature/meme is very much like On The Smugglers Radar from The Book Smugglers , and we will use it when we really want to bring
to your attention some of the very cool book releases we're looking
forward to. You are welcome to borrow this feature if you want.

I haven't done one for ages! So sorry about it, peeps!

Here we go...

Summary

Sometimes A + B = O. Yes. Oh, yes. Just like that.

Gabriella
Evans’s life exists in terms of logic and definitions. She’s holed up
in Portland, Maine, for the summer to work on her PhD thesis, but
something is screwing up her concentration: the rumble of a motorcycle
every time the embodiment of her rough-and-tumble fantasies rides down
her street.

When her best friend talks her into a blind date, she
finds herself out with the opposite of her fantasy. He’s polite and
well-mannered, yet something behind his crisply tailored shirt doesn’t
add up—a rebellious gleam in his eye that piques her curiosity.

Orphaned
at fifteen, Connor Starks has finally put the years of failing grades,
breaking laws and breaking hearts behind him. The only holdover? His
penchant for getting down and dirty in public places. But Gabriella
makes him want to prove he’s become a better man.

Nothing
intrigues Gabriella more than a problem she can’t solve. But the more
Connor tries to bury his past, the more determined she is to uncover it.
And what she finds makes all her trusty logic begin to fail her…

Warning:
This book contains a summer romance, dirty talk, dockside kissing,
motorcycles and tattoos. Features a rebellious nerdy girl with an
appetite for outdoor sex and light spanking, and a bad boy who’s turned
good…or at least he’s trying.

Abducted by a Samurai warlord in 17th-century Japan – what happens when fear turns to love?

England,
1611, and young Hannah Marston envies her brother’s adventurous life.
But when she stows away on a merchant ship, her powers of endurance are
stretched to their limit. Then they reach Japan and all her suffering
seems worthwhile – until she is abducted by Taro Kumashiro’s warriors.

In
the far north of the country, samurai warlord Kumashiro is intrigued to
learn more about the girl who he has been warned about by a seer.
There’s a clash of cultures and wills, but they’re also fighting an
instant attraction to each other.

With her brother desperate to
find her and the jealous Lady Reiko equally desperate to kill her,
Hannah faces the greatest adventure of her life. And Kumashiro has to
choose between love and compromising his honour …

I think I've got this on my kindle because of my love for all things Asian, but seriuosly, what's not to love about this synopsis?

Summary

The Night House
Want to Read
Bianca St. Germain works at a Night House, a place where vampires like the aristocratic Jeremiah Archer, pay to feed on humans, and she doesn’t much care what others think of her. The money is good, and at least there, she’s safe. Bianca also doesn’t care that the Night House is killing her. All she cares about is: nauth, the highly addictive poison in vampire bites that brings a euphoria like no drug ever could.

But when Bianca meets James, a reclusive empath who feels everything she does, for the first time, she considers a life outside of the Night House and a someone worth living for. But Jeremiah has decided to keep Bianca for himself; he won’t allow her to walk away.

As she allows her feelings for James to grow, she struggles to contain nauth's strong hold on her life. If they are to have a future, James must make her see what she's worth, what she means to him, before Jeremiah and nauth claim her for good.

Still waiting for kindle version of this book, but doesn't it sound absolutely awesome and pretty dark?Where do I sign in?:)

Summary

Best friends, big fans,
a mysterious webcomic, and a long-lost girl collide in this riveting
novel, perfect for fans of both Cory Doctorow and Sarah Dessen;
illustrated throughout with comics.

Once upon a time, two best
friends created a princess together. Libby drew the pictures, May wrote
the tales, and their heroine, Princess X, slayed all the dragons and
scaled all the mountains their imaginations could conjure.

Once
upon a few years later, Libby was in the car with her mom, driving
across the Ballard Bridge on a rainy night. When the car went over the
side, Libby passed away, and Princess X died with her.

Once upon
a now: May is sixteen and lonely, wandering the streets of Seattle,
when she sees a sticker slapped in a corner window.

Princess X?

When
May looks around, she sees the Princess everywhere: Stickers. Patches.
Graffiti. There's an entire underground culture, focused around a
webcomic at IAmPrincessX.com. The more May explores the webcomic, the
more she sees disturbing similarities between Libby's story and Princess
X online. And that means that only one person could have started this
phenomenon---her best friend, Libby, who lives.

Since
losing her sight in a childhood accident, Mia Danvers has resided in a
small cottage on the vast Carrington estate. Thought to be dead, Mia
lives a life of virtual seclusion—until one night, while walking home,
she happens upon a horrendous crime.

Alex Foster, Eighth Duke of
Carrington, lives according to society’s expectations for him. He’s
never met the woman who lives in the cottage at the edge of his
property. But when she arrives at his door in the pouring rain terrified
and claiming she has witnessed a murder, she seizes his attention.

Mia
is determined to help the authorities track down the culprit, even
though the only person willing to accept her aid is the handsome,
arrogant duke. Working closely together proves difficult as Mia’s beauty
and independence tempts Alex to ignore convention and follow his
desire. But what neither of them know is that this murderer has struck
before in Whitechapel, taunting the British press only to vanish—a
ruthless killer who knows that Mia is the only living witness to his
crime…

I actually like romances, when one of the heroes struggles with a disability, and here there is an extra cherry on top - a mystery! I can't wait to dive in.

Summary

In Marla Klein and Ivy
Wilde’s world, teens are the gatekeepers of culture. A top fashion label
employs sixteen-year-old Marla to dictate hot new clothing trends,
while Ivy, a teen pop star, popularizes the garments that Marla
approves. Both girls are pawns in a calculated but seductive system of
corporate control, and both begin to question their world’s aggressive
levels of consumption. Will their new “eco-chic” trend subversively
resist and overturn the industry that controls every part of their
lives? Smart, provocative, and entertaining, this thrilling
page-turner for teens questions the cult like mentality of fame and
fashion. Are you in or are you out?

Well, this caught my eye as an unusual topic for a dystopia, but a very apt one. Curious to read it!

Summary

Far away on Wilde
Island, Princess Rosalind is born with a dragon claw where her ring
finger should be. To hide the secret, the Queen forces her to wear
gloves at all times until a cure can be found, so Rosalind can fulfill
the prophecy to restore the family to their rightful throne. But
Rosalind’s flaw cannot be separated from her fate. When she is carried
off by the dragon, everything she thought she knew falls apart. The
dragon sees beauty in her talon where her mother saw only shame, and
Rosalind finally understands what her mother has truly denied
her. Carey has written a stunning portrayal of the complex
relationship between a mother and daughter in a lyrical novel sure to
thrill readers who love fantasy—and those who don’t.

I have one word for you: DRAGONS! I need this.Why the hell it's not on kindle yet?!

Summary

First in a new fantasy series from the author of the Novels of the Half-Light City.

Entangled
in a court ruled by tradition and intrigue, a young witch must come to
terms with newfound power and desire—and a choice between loyalty and
survival.…

The royal witches of Anglion have bowed to
tradition for centuries. If a woman of royal blood manifests powers, she
is immediately bound by rites of marriage. She will serve her lord by
practicing the tamer magics of the earth—ensuring good harvests and
predicting the weather. Any magic more dangerous is forbidden.

Lady Sophia Kendall, thirty-second in line to the throne, is only days
away from finding out if she will be blessed—or perhaps cursed—with
magic. When a vicious attack by Anglion’s ancient enemies leaves the
kingdom in chaos, Sophia is forced to flee the court. Her protector by
happenstance is Lieutenant Cameron Mackenzie, a member of the royal
guard, raised all his life to be fiercely loyal to the Crown.

Then Sophia’s powers manifest stronger than she ever imagined they
would, and Cameron and she are inextricably linked in the process. As a
witch unbound by marriage rites, Sophia is not only a threat to the
established order of her country, but is also a weapon for those who
seek to destroy it. Faced with old secrets and new truths, she must
decide if she will fight for her country or succumb to the delicious
temptation of power.…

I enjoyed reading M.J. Scott before, and this certainly feels like a fantasy with a potential to me.

Summary

Queen Of The Unknown

The
tales tell of three sisters, daughters of the high king. The eldest, a
valiant warrior-woman, heir to the kingdom. The youngest, the sweet
beauty with her Prince Charming. No one says much about the middle
princess, Andromeda. Andi, the other one.

Andi doesn't mind being
invisible. She enjoys the company of her horse more than court, and she
has a way of blending into the shadows. Until the day she meets a
strange man riding, who keeps company with wolves and ravens, who rules a
land of shapeshifters and demons. A country she'd thought was no more
than legend--until he claims her as its queen.

In a moment
everything changes: Her father, the wise king, becomes a warlord,
suspicious and strategic. Whispers call her dead mother a traitor and a
witch. Andi doesn't know if her own instincts can be trusted, as visions
appear to her and her body begins to rebel.

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